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Yiddish Paris - Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France (Paperback)
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Yiddish Paris - Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France (Paperback)
Series: The Modern Jewish Experience
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Yiddish Paris explores how Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Eastern
Europe in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s created a Yiddish diaspora
nation in Western Europe and how they presented that nation to
themselves and to others in France. In this meticulously researched
and first full-length study of interwar Yiddish culture in France,
author Nicholas Underwood argues that the emergence of a Yiddish
Paris was depended on "culture makers," mostly left-wing Jews from
Socialist and Communist backgrounds who created cultural and
scholarly organizations and institutions, including the French
branch of YIVO (a research institution focused on East European
Jews), theater troupes, choruses, and a pavilion at the Paris
World's Fair of 1937. Yiddish Paris examines how these left-wing
Yiddish-speaking Jews insisted that even in France, a country known
for demanding the assimilation of immigrant and minority groups,
they could remain a distinct group, part of a transnational
Yiddish-speaking Jewish nation. Yet, in the process, they in fact
created a French-inflected version of Jewish diaspora nationalism,
finding allies among French intellectuals, largely on the left.
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